Breathing in the Spirit's Presence
Poem★★★★One of the Keswick speakers tells us that one night, after hearing a moving address on the subject of the fuller reception of the Divine life, he went up on one of the heights overlooking Keswick, and he said to God FAITH 123 there at the midnight hour: “My God, I have not any feeling about it, but just as I am breathing in this air here, I open my heart to breath in the Spirit’s presence.’”’ By and by he started to come down with no change whatever in his emotional condition, and he said that a mocking voice seemed to say, “You have not got it.”
“Yes, I have.” “Ah, but you do not feel it.”
“Ah, but I believe.” “Well, you cannot keep it, anyway.” “No, but it will keep me.”
There is the confidence of trust, the difference between faith and feeling. Use your mind. Love God “with all your mind.” Your mind will help you trust and your trust will help you love.
— H.
The point
A Keswick speaker, after hearing about deeper faith, prayed at midnight 'as I breathe this air, I open my heart to breathe in the Spirit,' then was tested by a mocking voice but responded with confidence in faith, not feeling.